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Figure 5. VP
VPdep V'
Through annotation as indicated in the phrase structure rule in (12), the functional status of
VPdep is that of a chain-adjunct relative to the head V' (for convenience, we here and
throughout write only ADJUNCT as the f-structure attribute label, since no other types of
adjuncts will be discussed):
(12) VP -> VPdep V'
↑ADJUNCT=↓ ↑=↓
Chain-adjuncts are headed by dependent verbs. A dependent verb is one of the many lexically
induced verb forms of Oriya (for a discussion of Oriya verb morphology, see Sahoo 2001). A
skeletal lexical entry for dependent verbs is given in figure 6:
Figure 6.
Phrase Structure: VPdep � ... Vdep
Lexicon: ‘string’: V (↑PRED) = ’string’
- i : (↑V-FORM) = dep
Through recursion of (12), the embeddings of chain-adjuncts inside of other chain-adjuncts is
obtained. The c-structure induced by (12) corresponds to the schematic f-structure (showing
one recursion) illustrated in figure 7:
Figure 7.
⎡PRED 'string' SUBJ
⎤
⎢ ⎥
⎢
SUBJ ⎡PRED[ 'string']
⎤
⎥
⎢ ⎣ ⎦
⎥
⎢ ⎡ ⎤⎥
⎢ ⎢ ⎥⎥
⎢ ⎢
PRED 'string' SUBJ
⎥⎥
⎢ADJUNCT ⎢SUBJ[ ]
⎥⎥
⎢ ⎢ ⎡PRED 'string' SUBJ ⎤⎥⎥
⎢ ⎢ADJUNCT ⎢ ⎥⎥
SUBJ [ ]
⎥
⎢⎣ ⎢⎣ ⎣ ⎦⎥⎦⎥⎦
3.2. Subject sharing
Expanding phrase structure rule (12), we now can induce subject sharing as follows:
(13) VP -> VP V'
↑SUBJECT = ↓SUBJECT ↑=↓
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